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South Bend joins Indiana cities with smoking bans for bars
The expanded South Bend smoking ban ordinance was approved in March and will take effect Tuesday. A state law adopted in 2012 prohibits smoking in most indoor workplaces, including restaurants.
See what happens to your body in the hours, days, weeks, months and years after you quit smoking
As many people quit smoking for their New Year’s resolution, here’s a breakdown of what happens to your body As 2017 gets under way, many smokers will have taken their last puff – and there’s no doubt that quitting smoking is the best thing they can do for their health. We know that we all die eventually, but smokers die on average 10 years earlier and tragically from much more painful and debilitating illnesses, such as lung cancer, heart attacks and strokes.
Forget Gilead Sciences Inc.: These 2 Stocks Doubled Last Year
Despite a generally bleak year for Gilead, and for biotech stocks in general, shares of Exelixis, Inc. Can these biotechs continue climbing throughout the new year and beyond, or are they about to sputter and run out of fuel? Let’s look at what’s propelling them upward to see why they might be better picks than Gilead Sciences. A string of good news for Exelixis’ lead cancer drug made this one of the best-performing biotech stocks of 2016.
Medicare launches revamp for heart attacks, hip fractures
… It’s unclear whether Donald Trump as president will continue the pace of change, slow down or even hit pause. Trump’s Health and Human Services nominee, orthopedic-surgeon-turned-congressman Tom Price , has expressed general concern that the …
Smoking Bans To Begin In Public Housing
With the new year comes new rules. In fact it may be a good time to try and quit smoking now if you live in public housing.
Diagnoses as Descriptions of Behavior
Welcome to Childhood Made Crazy, an interview series that takes a critical look at the current “mental disorders of childhood” model. This series is comprised of interviews with practitioners, parents, and other children’s advocates as well as pieces that investigate fundamental questions in the mental health field.
Watch: New breathalyser to diagnose diseases with just one puff
… others, each disease has a chemical signature that distinguishes it from other diseases and from a normal state of health. These odour signatures are what enables us to identify the diseases using the technology that we developed,” Haick said. With …
Candy crush…almost
A candy is not only an element made of sugar and flavours that thrives in your body in the shape of flabs; rather it is the Severus Snape to your little Hogwarts that is called ‘life’. When your whole world is falling apart, when you fail your test, when you try to stop yourself from calling your ex, when you remember that your mother did not feed you that ‘ek baati payesh’ before your exam, candy comes to your rescue.
Letter: Medicare should cover hearing aids
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Kitty litter helps Wyoming bentonite past drilling slump
The market for a peculiar type of clay is looking up thanks to improved prospects for oil and gas drilling and to cat owners who use the stuff to soak up their pets’ business. Over 90 percent of all bentonite mined in the U.S. and almost half worldwide comes from beds of ancient volcanic ash in Wyoming.
Federal gov leads push to kick habit
Alarming rate: The Grampians region has one of the highest smoking rates in the country, with 28 per cent of adults smoking daily in 2013. Ballarat Community Health has welcomed the federal government’s renewed push to cut the national smoking rate, saying a greater focus needs to be put on assisting lower socioeconomic groups to kick the habit.
Bloomberg View: Dona t stop pushing on Medicare payment reform
The quest to create a more rational health-care system took a dispiriting turn this month, when the federal government abandoned an effort to motivate doctors to use the best available drugs, rather than the costliest ones. What’s worrisome is that this could be the start of a more general retreat from payment reform in health care as the White House changes hands.
We’re Bullish on Wide-Moat Amgen
Amgen has its roots in providing supportive-care products to kidney disease and cancer patients, and free cash flow as a percentage of sales hovers near 40% as the company undertakes massive cost-cutting and improves manufacturing. Strong newer blockbusters like Prolia/Xgeva and future blockbuster Repatha should defend Amgen’s wide economic moat from erosion caused by biosimilar and branded competition.
Our Towns Calendars: 1-2
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Texas icon George Strait shares his favorite hangover treat
The King of Country Music is just like you and me. He prefers menudo as his go-to hangover cure.
What a night of drinking does to you
UNDER current guidelines, “single occasion risky drinkers” are defined as people who consume five plus standard drinks in one night . Beyond your standard hangover and texting-the-ex-regret, most of us aren’t too clued up on what binge drinking is actually doing to our brain, liver, stomach and heart.
The Case for Eating Butter Just Got Stronger
… had become “the most vilified nutrient in the American diet” despite the scientific evidence showing it didn’t harm health or cause weight gain in moderation. ” For the last few years there’s been research and commentary suggesting that this focus …
Smokers vow to quit heading into the New Year: how to do it
… it’s still the number one preventable cause of death in the country. Dr. Hyland, PhD, Chair of the Department of Health Behavior at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Director of the New York State Smokers’ Quitline said, “I also encourage physicians …
Hungry Venezuelans flood Brazilian towns, as threat of mass migration looms
… the size of Wyoming. Venezuelans account for 60 percent of all hospital visits along the border, according to the Health Ministry in this northern state. Infections from sexually transmitted diseases are skyrocketing from the arrival of so many …
Traditional medicine won’t cure China’s ills
… to “give a boost to China’s soft power,” as one spokesperson put it. Unfortunately, it’s also misguided. China’s health-care system is already burdened by fraud, a shortage of doctors, counterfeit medicine and rank profiteering. Whatever the merits …
U.S. Marines march in the annual Veterans Day Parade along Fifth Avenue in 2014 in New York City.
Much has been said about the physical and psychological injuries of war, like traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder. But what we talk about less is how these conditions affect the sexual relationships of service members after they return from combat.
3 Myths About Marijuana Stocks
What do Hercules, Thor, centaurs, and marijuana stocks have in common? They’re all the subjects of myths. Most myths have at least a little bit of truth interspersed with a lot that is false.
Opinion: Carrie Fisher battled stigma as well as stormtroopers
… about mental illness in our society. It’s telling that Fisher has been celebrated more for her contribution to mental health awareness than to feminism or film. In the 40 years since she starred as Princess Leia, we’ve seen many powerful women on …
Eat This! The Healthiest Food Trends for 2017
My health insurance should cover me when I need it. Close loopholes that can leave me huge surprise medical bills.
It’s All in the Facts: Reasons to Change This New Year, 2017
2. Complications from obesity, including increased risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, osteoarthritis and cancers, account for 90 percent of all health care costs. These are lifestyle diseases and are mostly preventable with exercise and healthy eating.
In Religious Freedom Victory Federal Court Blocks Obama Abortion, Transgender Regulations
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Judge Reed O’Connor issued a preliminary injunction Saturday, blocking the federal government from enforcing an Obama administration regulation which”forbids discriminating on the basis of ‘gender identity’ and ‘termination of pregnancy'” under Obamacare. The regulation would have taken effect on January 1. The Plaintiffs claimed the regulation’s interpretation of sex discrimination pressures doctors to deliver healthcare in a manner that violates their religious freedom, thwarts their independent medical judgment and will require burdensome changes to their health insurance plans on January 1, 2017.
US lawmakers press pharma firm on high prices for antibiotic
Two US lawmakers are questioning whether Heritage Pharmaceuticals misled them in response to a 2014 congressional inquiry about the rising price a common antibiotic, after 20 US states this week accused the company of price fixing. In a Dec. 16 letter to Heritage seen by Reuters, Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings and Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said they feared the company was “disingenuous at best” in October, 2014, when it told them it had not seen any significant price increases for its doxycycline hyclate product.
Everything we know about hangovers – and what you can do to make the pain go away
Many of us may not be feeling the welcome just quite yet. After all, Newton’s third law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Heart Failure: What You Need to Know
Heart failure, sometimes known as congestive heart failure, occurs when the heart muscle does not pump blood as well as it should, which could result in electrical instability in the ventricles and cause sudden death. Properly assessing patients with diagnostic tools such as EKG, echocardiogram, nuclear stress test, blood work and heart rate monitoring are the best practices to identify heart failure-related risk factors, including coronary artery disease, hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes.
Sex Without Urinary Tract Infection: Keeping It Clean
Prevention of urinary tract infections has become so important, as we all find ourselves in the middle of what infectious disease experts have termed a “stealth pandemic” of Escherichia coli sequence type 131 that is resistant to some very potent antibiotics. Generally speaking, E coli is responsible for at least 80% of the 7 million uncomplicated outpatient UTIs that occur yearly in the United States.
Drew Gallagher: Heart monitor makes one appreciate life without wires
My general practitioner once described the heart monitor as “a pain in the [butt].” She was wrong, but only in that she did not use strong enough terms.
Statins may help prevent Alzheimer’s
The use of cholesterol lowering drugs called statins has been the source of controversy since lovastatin was given approval by the Food and Drug Administration to become the first commercial statin in September 1987.
Scottish Labour ministers considered fighting blood scandal compensation claims
… the creation of a precedent for compensation which could cause “immense future difficulties”. Susan Deacon, Labour’s health minister at the time, said defending the claims would mean the Executive would look “unsympathetic” but she conceded this was …
The last nationwide injunction of 2016
On New Year’s Eve, a federal judge in Texas has put a temporary halt to a federal regulation implementing anti-discrimination provisions of the Affordable Care Act . Chris Geidner of Buzzfeed The Health and Human Services regulation “forbids discriminating on the basis of ‘gender identity’ and ‘termination of pregnancy'” under Obamacare, as US District Court Judge Reed O’Connor wrote in his opinion halting enforcement of those provisions in the rule.
Judge blocks Obama’s transgender mandate
A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the Obama administration’s new requirements for transgender care, granting a preliminary injunction Saturday to several states and religious health organizations suing over the rules. The rule, which was slated to go into effect Jan. 1, says that doctors can’t refuse to provide medically necessary health services within their scope of practice because of a patient’s gender identity.
Can you die of a broken heart? U.S. doctor explains following deaths…
Debbie Reynolds’ death just a day after that of her daughter, Star Wars star Carrie Fisher, had the internet abuzz: Can you really die of a broken heart? Tampa General Hospital heart transplant surgeon Dr. Siva Kumar says yes – “broken-heart syndrome” is a real thing. But it’s hard to say whether such an episode is what ended an already aging Reynolds’ life.
Optical properties of normal and cancerous human skin in the visible and near-infrared spectral range
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Demarcation of nonmelanoma skin cancer margins in thick excisions…
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Anti-Wrinkle Oil for the Over-Thirties
… others any way she can. One way she chooses to help is by offering information on the benefits and uses of natural health and healing methods for the well-being of both people and pets. Dee also teaches Aromatherapy, Reflexology and Color/Crystal …